DECATUR, Ga. -- The DeKalb School Board and superintendent plan to part ways Friday.

In a statement released Thursday evening, the board said:

The DeKalb County Board of Education and Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Atkinson have mutually agreed to end their relationship effective Friday, February 8, 2013. The Board and Dr. Atkinson each determined and believe that it is in the best interest of all concerned that there be a mutual separation and they wish each other well in all their future endeavors.

According to an agenda sent out Thursday following a special called meeting, board members plan to meet Friday in executive session and then vote on a separation agreement with Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson.